Emulsion-Induced Ordered Microporous Films Based on Micelles of Amphiphilic Poly(ethylene oxide)-block-Poly(methyl methacrylate) Diblock Copolymers

✍ Scribed by Koji Ishizu; Masataka Makino; Satoshi Uchida

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 317 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1022-1336
• DOI: 10.1002/marc.200600828

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Well‐defined PEO‐b‐PMMA was prepared, initiated by macroinitiator PEO‐Br, by means of ATRP, where esterification of the terminal hydroxyl group of PEO with 2‐bromoisobutyryl bromide yielded a macroinitiator PEO‐Br. Highly ordered microporous films (hexagonal pattern) were constructed by emulsion micelles of such amphiphilic diblock copolymer formed from a solution with CHCl~3~/H~2~O/THF = 100:5:10 (v/v). We also constructed the microporous films using diblock copolymer by the current water‐assisted method.

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